Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

Man’s inner content is the worth of his life

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?”“Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.